A few months ago a recipe was going around Instagram with the hashtag #1carbwaffle. You KNOW I wasn’t going to let that one pass by without trying it out to share with you guys. So, at midnight on a school night when I should have been asleep, I crept into the kitchen and fired up…

I wanted to share one of my FAVORITE ways to start my morning with a big jolt of protein. This isn’t really a recipe as much as a strategy I wanted to share. But here it goes: 1 scoop of 1st Phorm Protein (I use Level 1 for everything except post-workout, so mine is usually…

Chicken salad is one of the easiest vehicles for lots of protein…the only problem is that traditional chicken salad also carries a LOT of fat. There’s no cool way to get around the fat in mayo. Reduced fat mayo is pumped with weird stuff to offset the fat, so this recipe just does without it…

Every day we’ll be asking you to log your macro intake at the end of the way (or the beginning if you plan your day ahead of time). To do this, click on the link in the ProjectU Beginner FB group description. It’s here on the right: It will open up a shared GoogleDocs spreadsheet. …

Confession time: I hate meal prepping for people. I don’t mind putting together a few weekly recipes and letting everyone tweak and fill in for themselves, but actually planning everything for a person to eat every day? Nope. Makes my chest hurt even thinking about it. So when I asked everyone in the ProjectU Beginner…

Hey friends! I hope you had an easy time with MFP yesterday! We’re excited to see your results, so let’s start there. Open up MFP. It will bring you to today’s log. Up near the date, there are arrows to the left < and to the right >. Click on the left arrow and it…

Hey friend! It’s time to get down to business! Welcome to DAY 4 of our jumpstart to ProjectU. 🙂 They say that “what gets measured gets managed” and that’s as true in the world of nutrition and fitness as it is anywhere. So the first step to improving our eating habits is figuring out what…

Hey friend! Thanks for hanging in there through all the nutrition basics over the last two days. Today is DAY 3 of your progress towards a healthier, happier you, which we hope will lead to a healthier, happier family. Our main goals here at ProjectU are “healthy lives, healthy families.” You can define “family” however…